Mike Fahey

Now You Can Play Angry Birds Star Wars on Facebook

The magnificent mobile mixture of Angry Birds and Star Wars that swept the mobile game charts gets social today, as Rovio launches the Angry Birds Star Wars Facebook game. With weekly friend tournaments and five new levels to compete in every week, the Facebook version of Angry Birds Star Wars sounds perfect for players that…

Transformers Legends is Out, Suddenly Mobile Collector Card Games Make Sense

My lengthy struggle with mobile collectible card games might have been avoided completely had DeNA released Transformers Legends sooner. It’s not just that the bot-themed collectible card game, available now on Android, features characters from an entertainment property I’ve been in love with for nearly three decades, but it certainly helps. The card fusion mechanic—combining…

Now through 1 AM Eastern tomorrow, Fruit Ninja and the rest of Halfbrick’s iOS titles are free. Grab them here

This Week’s Facebook Winners and Losers: Candy Crush Saga Gets What It Deserves

I spent an inconveniently substantial portion of last night trying to clear away gels in one level of King.com’s Candy Crush Saga. Knowing that an additional million people are experiencing the same frustration this week makes me feel better. The King.com / Zynga competition is really starting to heat up, thanks in no small part…

Live from New York, It’s the Week in Gaming Apps

Just because I spent the second half of the week making my first visit to Kotaku‘s headquarters in five years doesn’t mean I had time to play a dozen gaming apps this week. All the drinking does. I did my best to look at a diverse selection of games this week, but when Tina Amini…

Check Out Modern Combat 4 Played on the MOGA Controller

Yesterday the Power A folks celebrated the Android launch of Modern Combat 4: Ridiculous Dialog by giving away (or attempting to give away) free MOGA game controllers with copies of the game. If you managed to score one, this is what you’re in for. And if you didn’t mange to secure a controller, perhaps this…

Highgrounds is Deceptively Simple Multiplayer Strategy You Can Play in Your Browser

From Spry Fox, creators of the acclaimed (and cloned) Triple Town, comes a multiplayer strategy game so ingenious and accessible that you should probably just stop reading this and go play it. Of course that would require me telling you what it is first, so you’re stuck with me unless you quickly scan, and I’ve…

Match-Three Puzzles and Word Games Collide in One Phenomenal iOS Title

There’s a new match-three puzzle or word game on iTunes every week. App stores across all mobile platforms are flooded by games from these two genres, and it doesn’t feel like there’s much any developer could do to innovate in either. But what if we combine the two? Developer About Fun does just that with…

Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade is Live and Pretty Disappointing

Sneaking past me onto iTunes this morning, DeNA’s Asian import Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade is now available for free download. Just don’t expect much in the ways of bells or whistles. In fact, there’s no sound at all. Final Fantasy Airborne Brigade is one of those collectible card games I love so much, only instead…

Showcasing the best apps of 2012, iTunes names Rayman Jungle Run and The Room iPhone and iPad games of the year.

Celebrate the Release of Modern Combat 4 on Android with a Free MOGA Controller

Gameloft’s Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour works well enough with touch controls, but it should absolutely sing with a physical gamepad like the MOGA controller, so Power A is giving them away for free. For one day only (ending at 11:59PM Pacific time or while supplies last) Power A is giving Android gamers free MOGA…

The Most Gleefully Random Card Game is Amazing on iOS

The card experts at Playdek prove their mastery of the mobile deck genre with an amazing port of Andrew Looney’s rule-bending card game Fluxx, now available on iTunes. Fluxx is the most fun two to four people can have with a deck of cards, a glorious cacophony of ever-changing rules and goals. The cards players…

Check Out the First Gameplay From Cut the Rope Creator’s Pudding Monsters

It’s not as cute as Om Nom’s candy munching adventure, but it has potential. ZeptoLab’s Pudding Monsters hits the app store on December 20.

Zynga Launches Mobile Gaming’s Answer to Battlefield Heroes

Available today on iOS and coming soon to Android, The Respawnables is Zynga’s first mobile multiplayer online shooter, bearing a striking resemblance to a pair of popular PC games. Developer Digital Legends worked on the mobile version of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, so drawing a little inspiration from the cartoony free-to-play PC entry in the…

Bubble Safari Goes Mobile, Under the Sea

Suddenly hip to the fact that folks love the hell out of some colored bubble popping, Zynga launches a pair of new games in the seven-month-old Bubble Safari series. Is it still a safari if it’s underwater? First off we’ve got the promised mobile version of the original monkey-powered Bubble Safari, available for free on…

With iPad and iCade Combined, a Classic Game Console is Reborn

Rantmedia games and ION have given me back a substantial portion of my childhood — the early days when I could be found sitting in front of an odd black box playing simple vector-based games with a controller connected via coiled telephone cord. So the controller isn’t corded this time around. Between the Vectrex Regeneration…

Zynga Elite Slots is One Part Slot Machine, One Part Massively Multiplayer Boss Raid

The problem with most slot machine video games is a failure to capture the thrill of winning big in the middle of a crowded casino. Launching soon on Facebook, Zynga Elite Slots communicates that feeling by placing you in a room with up to 149 fellow gamblers and challenging the group to take down a…

The Dark and Gritty Criminal Case Could Use a Little More Energy

Criminal Case, a new police procedural from Pretty Simple, threatens to be one of the most engrossing hidden object games on Facebook. Now if only I could play for more than five minutes at a time. Criminal Case places the player in the shoes of a police detective tasked with solving a series of crimes…

Man, Remember Playmobil? Gameloft Refreshes Your Memory Tomorrow

I don’t generally get past the LEGO aisle in Toys’R’Us, so Playmobil is nothing but a distant childhood memory to me. Were I to venture to the other side of the brick section, I would likely see something very similar to what Gameloft is releasing tomorrow with Playmobil Pirates for iOS and Android. Create a…

Popcap Reveals Its Hidden Agenda for Facebook

In a small town where everybody has a secret, a rift between two powerful families threatens to tear apart bonds formed through history, business and blood. PopCap’s upcoming hidden object mystery for Facebook bears the mark of many classic tales of drama and suspense. It also bears bears. Anthropomorphic animals populate Hidden Agenda, due out…